AA tanks?

hello i was just wondering what your guys think about AA tanks being in world of tanks. i think it would be quite a nice idea to have some as maybe premium tanks.

a few examples:

please forgive me if i dont know the names they were just some examples i found

in my opinion these AA tanks i think would be fun to play and would be a bit diffrent from the normal tank classes we get. there guns might not have great damage but im sure they would make up for there lack of power with a nice rate of fire.

please post what you think below.

remember its only an idea nothing serious. i just think gameplay wise they would be instresting

Playing with them will be same as playing with M2 LT and it's stock gun (the .50 cal MG) in high tier battles. You would have crazy rate of fire, but wouldn't be able to penetrate most of the tanks. Maybe they will be useful if the WG combines World of tanks and World of Warplanes. This AA tanks could provide defense against those pesky planes trying to bomb our tanks

In theory some of them would be great, rapid firing autocannons often with two or more. But take stuff like the Ostwind Flakpanzer and Crusader MK.I AA, both fire HE rounds only meaning that you're either going to litterally rape any tank you see due to nigh constant HE barrages or do nothing.

hello i was just wondering what your guys think about AA tanks being in world of tanks. i think it would be quite a nice idea to have some as maybe premium tanks.

a few examples:

bigflyboy, on 04 August 2012 - 02:50 AM, said:

please forgive me if i dont know the names they were just some examples i found
in my opinion these AA tanks i think would be fun to play and would be a bit diffrent from the normal tank classes we get. there guns might not have great damage but im sure they would make up for there lack of power with a nice rate of fire.
please post what you think below.
remember its only an idea nothing serious. i just think gameplay wise they would be instresting

For some clarification

M19 Gun motor Carriage, 1944, with 2 x 40mm bofors

Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" 4 x 20mm Flak 38

Canadian Skink, based on the Grizzly 4 x 20mm Polsten

Crusader III, AA Mk II / Mk III. 2 x 20mm Oerlikon

There was also the Crusader III AA Mk 1 with a single 40mm Bofors and one with 3 x 20mm Oerlikons

SU 11, 1 x 37mm 61-K mod. 1939

QuakeRiley, on 04 August 2012 - 07:50 AM, said:

In theory some of them would be great, rapid firing autocannons often with two or more. But take stuff like the Ostwind Flakpanzer and Crusader MK.I AA, both fire HE rounds only meaning that you're either going to litterally rape any tank you see due to nigh constant HE barrages or do nothing.

The Bofors 40mm did have an AP round, it was tested by the US and found to be able to penetrate the Panthers turret side armour at 600m

The Italians also had a design for a AA tank based on the M15/42 armed with 4 x 20mm weapons (the main Italian 20mm AA weapon was the Breda Model 35, which was a dual purpose weapon that had AP rounds as well.

Playing with them will be same as playing with M2 LT and it's stock gun (the .50 cal MG) in high tier battles. You would have crazy rate of fire, but wouldn't be able to penetrate most of the tanks. Maybe they will be useful if the WG combines World of tanks and World of Warplanes. This AA tanks could provide defense against those pesky planes trying to bomb our tanks

When the KV series was first introdued in the 40's the 8.8cm flak cannon was one of the few weapons the German ground forces had that could knock out a Soviet heavy tank.